SLIMMED DOWN AND SHAPED UP: STANDARD AERO FOCUSES ON ALIGNING CULTURES AND CREATING AWARENESS

摘要

There's a story told about NASA back in the 1960s. A visitor walked into one of the buildings and saw a man sweeping the floor. He asked the man what he was doing and the worker replied, "I'm sending a man to the moon." That's the type of vision that Andrew Farrant, senior vice-president, marketing and corporate communications at Standard Aero, is working to foster. "The point is that he understood what he was doing in the broader context," says Farrant, " and that's really what we want our employees to recognize." Farrant is one of the key players in the recent alignment of the group of businesses that now make up Standard Aero. It was in late March 2008 that Standard Aero completed the integration of Landmark Aviation's legacy maintenance facilities (formerly Garrett Aviation Services) and launched its new corporate identity. The new Standard Aero, which now consists of the five legacy Landmark Aviation maintenance facilities and the seven legacy Standard Aero facilities combined, was created when Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) purchased Standard Aero and Landmark Aviation from the Carlyle Group in July 2007. In February 2008, DAE sold the FBOs and the Landmark name to GTCR, Encore FBO and Platform Partners.